To:HIS MOTHER

Published:First published in 1929 in the journalProletarskaya RevolyutsiyaNo. 6.

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MariaAlexandrovna Ulyanova,Vinogradov’s House,Bronnitskaya Street,Podolsk,Moscow Gubernia

January 30, 1899

Yesterday,Mother dearest, I receivedNeue Zeitfrom
Anyuta and a price list from Mitya.Mercifor them. Today
I read an announcement aboutNachalo[1]inRusskiye
Vedomosti. It is a good thing I have managed to finish my
“markets” just in time for the beginning ofNachalo(I
finished them at long last today. On Wednesday I am
sending in the last two chapters) and now I shall be free to do a
little work on current affairs. I have received a little book
to review, but have not yet managed to read
it.[2]

Ido not remember whether I wrote about Anatoly being
ill all the time. He has had another misfortune; an order
has arrived transferring him to the village of Antsiferovo
(several dozen versts to the north of Yeniseisk on the road
to
Turukhansk)[3]—further banishment to punish him
because an exile by the name of Makhnovets (who only
arrived this winter) ran away and gave somebody Anatoly’s
address. From this the conclusion was drawn in some
incomprehensible manner that Anatoly must have known
about the escape! So far Anatoly has not been moved
because of his illness—he cannot even go out of the house.
He has applied to be transferred to Minusinsk District or
to Russia for treatment.

Nothinghas been heard about Yuly’s transfer.

Threeexiles have also been transferred from the village
of Kazachinskoye (where A. A. Yakubova lives); those
transferred are Lengnik, to a place not far from us,
Arefyev and Rostkovsky, so the Kazachinskoye colony has
been very, very much thinned out.

Kurnatovsky(he lives in the village of Kuraginskoye,
some 100 versts away from us) asked to be transferred to
Shusha; he has been refused; he is now being transferred
to the village of Yermakovskoye (about 40 versts from
Shushenskoye), where he will be quite alone.

Weare having exceptionally good weather; very light
frosts (10–12°), bright days and sunshine that is already
springlike. This is not a Siberian winter!

Many,many kisses for you and regards to all.

Yours,V. U.

[1]Nachalo(The Beginning)—a monthly scientific, literary and
political magazine, organ of the “legal Marxists”; it appeared
in St. Petersburg in the first half of 1899, edited by P. B. Struve,
M. I. Tugan-Baranovsky and others. It carried several of Lenin’s
book reviews and the first six sections of Chapter III of hisThe
Development of Capitalism in Russia.

[2]Ascan be seen from the next letter, this refers to R. Gvozdyov’s
bookKulak Usury, Its Social and Economic Significance; Lenin’s
review of the book was published inNachaloNo. 3 for 1899.
(SeeCollected Works, Vol. 4,  pp. 67–69.)

[3]A.A. Vaneyev was not  transferred to the village of Antsiferovo
because of ill health.